Why is there Protestant and Chatolic?

Question

How did these two groups come about according to history?
If you are a protestant means u cant go to a chatolic church? what is the difference?

Answer 1

The protestant (notice the word "protest" in protestant) broke away from the Catholic Church because when Bibles were made available to all, (previously only the monks had access... up until Martin Luther started the printing of Bibles for the common man) the common man noticed the errors of the Catholic faith. At the time that Martin Luther left the church, the Catholic church was charging money to people so they could get their loved ones out of purgatory. This wasn't Biblical, so Luther posted the 95 theses on the door of the church. This caused people to start protesting the control of the Catholic Church.

Protestants do not normally go to a Catholic Church because we have seen the error of the Catholic religious services. There is no sense in going and worshiping in a church that leads people away from what God originally taught. It isn't illegal but it just doesn't make sense to go to a church that preaches things against what the Bible says.

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation

It doesn't get much clearer than this. Most of the answers here are right, at least partially, but you don't really get the big picture. You know, you asked a question that only has 'the long answer'. The article in my opinion answers the question 'why' pretty well.

Some basic differences:
A protestand may be present in a catholic service and vice versa, but he can't take part in communion. The catholic church has seven sacraments, but protestant only two, communion and baptism. Also the catholics pray to the saints, the Virgin Mary and so forth, protestants do not. Catholics go to confession as a rule, protestants generally don't. Note also that there is basically only one church known as the 'catholic church', but there are several different churches that are all protestant, e.g. Anglican, Lutheran, Calvinist... (There's also the Greek catholic church, but that's usually known as the orthodox church.) Also protestant churches base their teachings solely on the Bible, with the catholic church it's a bit more complicated with the tradition, authority of the Pope and so forth.

Answer 3

Historically there was one Christian Church. The first split was between the Eastern and Western Churches in the 10th century. The Eastern Churches became Orthodox, the Western Church became Roman Catholic. Martin Luther challenged a number of Catholic beliefs in the 16th Century and started what is known as the Protestant revolution.

Protestants are welcome to attend Catholic services but they may not receive holy communion since it is a sign of unity and that unity no longer exists.

There are zillions of protestant Churches and there is the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Rite Churches that are in communion with Rome. I don't think anyone could explain the differences to you in a few paragraphs.

I will note some key differences between Roman Catholics and most Protestant denominations:

1. The Roman Catholic Church accepts both Tradition and Scripture as definitive teaching. Protestants generally accept only Scripture.
2. The Roman Catholic Church has a priesthood and an episcopacy that extends back to the time of the Apostles. St. Peter is considered by Roman Catholics to be the first Pope or head of the Church. All subsequent Popes are successors of St. Peter.
3. The Roman Catholic Church recognizes 7 sacraments - baptism, confirmation, reconciliation, eucharist, marriage, holy orders, and the annointing of the sick.
4. The Roman Catholic Church venerates the Mother of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus. The Church also venerates the ancient martyrs of the faith as well as more modern saints which she has the power to canonize.
5. The Roman Catholic Church believes in transubstantiation and the "Real Presence" of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.
6. The Roman Catholic Church accepts the Four Last things as death, judgement, heaven and hell. The Church also accepts the existence of a state called Purgatory where souls are purified after death.

There are of course other things but these would be the main ones.

VB8

Answer 4

The divisions within the Christian community are wider than Catholic vs Protestant. Orthodox denominations are neither, and the Church of England is English Catholic as opposed to Roman Catholic or Protestant.

The history of the Church follows the political history of Europe. For example, the king of Spain had great influence over the Vatican for a period of time, and being Catholic also meant submission to the Spanish Crown. That is why the Church of England came about. The early Protestant churches arose in response to corruption issues in the RC church--issues that were addressed centuries ago.

We sometimes go to an RC church (we don't live in a Christian country) and we take Communion even though we are not RC's. The priest and the parishioners welcomed us, and my church in Canada welcomes Christians of any denomination. We are polite and respectful to Fundamentalists who show up.

Answer 5

The Catholic Church was the first church, we trace our routes back to St. Peter who built the first Church of Christ. Protestants believe faith alone will get you into the kingdom of God. Which is somewhat true but...according to James 2:24 "You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone". When you are catholic you receive 7 sacraments, which is vital because God gave us these sacraments to bond with him spiritually and psychically. Protestants pretty much disagreed with the Catholic hence why the word "protest" is in the word protestant. How can you protest against the word of God? Catholics all the way baby. John Paul II was a great example of a true christian.

Answer 6

Well I know this cuz i have went to a Lutheran or "prodestant " school all my life. Catholic has been around for along time, but in the 1400 The priests were being dishonest and doing some things that were not very right so to speak and so a monk named Martin was readin the bible and found faults so a prodestant religion was created a prodestant religion is any christion religion that is not catholic . If you are prodestant it does not mean you can't go to a catholic church it just means they have different beliefs so it might be hard to understand somethings they do. The difference between the catolics and most prodestant groups is that catholics pray to saints not directly to Gad and Prodestants well most of them just pray directly to god,
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Answer 7

Catholic Church has been around for who knows how long, and somewhere along the line in Europe, people actually *gasp* started QUESTIONING it! And they were excommunicated for it, and went and started their own churches. There were many of them, so they were collectively known as Protestant, because the PROTESTed the Cathloic Church.
Sorry if you though I was trying to be rude. That's just my sarcastic attitude flaring up, it's nothing personal at all. I hope this helps!

Answer 8

Protestants are the groups that left the Catholic church to start new denominations.

Answer 9

There was a reformation and a counter-reformation, but don't confuse those with Protestantism which is a result of the individual European nations breaking from the popes sovereign political authority. Those kings wanted sovereign power in their own kingdoms, which required authority over a national church; hence, a unique protestant church for those nations that protested resulting in many similar protestant religions, and still similar to the Catholic Church, a mother and her daughters.
There are many general differences, and there are several mutual traditions; such as pagan ceremonies: Easter substituted for Passover; Christmas customs, yule log, Saint Nicolas or Santa Claus, etc., and especially Sunday substituted for God's sanctified seventh day sabbath for which there is no biblical justification. John's referrence to the Lord's day, in Revelation 1:10, concerns his envisioning the day of the Lord as described in verse 7. Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
Jesus gave John these visions, and He would not contradict His previous claim in Matthew 12:8. For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day. Nor would Jesus support the blasphemy of God's (Jesus') fourth commandment: Exodus 20:8. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Revelation 17:5. And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
You can go to any church you want, but they all want you to agree to their criteria before you are allowed to partake of their sacraments.
Peter obviously was not the founder of the Catholic Church: Galatians 2:7. But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;
for the capitol of the Roman Empire was uncircumcised pagan. Paul was a more likely candidate for that dubious honor, as he was in Rome when Peter was still head of the church in Jerusalem, where Peter was likely killed at the time of the destruction of the temple in 70 AD.

Answer 10

the catholic church it was one founded by jesus christ.. and the protestant churches were founded by men... the catholics we believe in the grace and actions.. the protestants only believe that faith could save you.. when they forget the actions too... they dont follow the apostolic traditions.. they dont have any connection with the apostles.. they forgot the catholic church made the new testament through the holy spirit inspiration.. they are divided